Look at the dimwit reporter too. (Dimwit or gaslighter).
Trump- “and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly…”
Reporter- “I'm sorry sir, I didn't understand what you were saying, you were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I don't understand what you're saying.”
C. The disinfectant Trump was talking about was not bleach. Proof. Trump talked about a disinfectant that knocked the virus out in about a minute. Read transcript and tell me what was mentioned that disinfects Covid in about a minute.
CNN — Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to protect Social Security. But the bevy of tax breaks he’s promised – including pledging to stop taxing Social Security benefits – could hasten the depletion of the beloved entitlement program’s trust funds and leave seniors with smaller monthly payments.
Trump’s platform would drain critical tax revenue from Social Security’s trust funds, leading them to run out of money by 2031 – three years earlier than currently projected, according to a new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan government watchdog. That would force a roughly 30% cut in benefits unless Congress acts.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a plan that would have this big of a negative effect on solvency in a general election campaign,” Marc Goldwein, the committee’s senior policy director, told CNN.
Social Security’s finances have long been on shaky financial ground. As the nation ages, the ranks of beneficiaries have surged while the number of workers contributing to the system has shrunk. The program’s combined retirement and disability trust funds are currently scheduled to run dry in 2034, leading to a 23% cut in benefits the following year, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis, which the committee used for its report. (Social Security’s trustees estimate the combined trust funds would be depleted in 2035.)
If Trump’s proposals were enacted, monthly payments would be 33% smaller in 2035, according to the committee, which did not do a detailed analysis of the impact of Vice President Kamala Harris’ platform on Social Security because it said the changes would be minimal.
The Trump campaign lashed out at the committee’s report, saying that the watchdog has been “consistently wrong throughout the years.”
“By unleashing American energy, slashing job-killing regulations, and adopting pro-growth America First tax and trade policies, President Trump will quickly rebuild the greatest economy in history and put Social Security on a stronger footing for generations to come, all the while eliminating taxes on Social Security for America’s well-deserving seniors,” Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s national press secretary, said in a statement.
Cutting taxes on Social Security benefits During this year’s supertight race for the White House, Trump has rolled out a series of targeted tax breaks in an effort to woo specific voting blocs. In total, these measures – along with a few others – would slash revenue going to the entitlement program by about $2.3 trillion over a decade, the committee found.
The costliest proposal is eliminating federal income taxes on Social Security benefits. This would drain the program’s revenue by $950 billion over 10 years, according to the committee.
Currently, around half of beneficiaries – mainly those with higher incomes – pay federal income tax on their Social Security payments. They owe taxes on their benefits if they earn more than $25,000 per individual, or $32,000 for married couples, of so-called combined income.
Initially, Trump’s measure would favor those earning between roughly $63,000 and $206,000, who would see the largest average boost in their share of after-tax income, according to the Tax Policy Center. Those making more or less wouldn’t see much of a change, if any.
Once Social Security’s trust funds run out of money, though, lower-income recipients would be hit the hardest. They generally would not qualify for the tax break so they’d feel the full brunt of the benefit reduction, Goldwein said. For better-off recipients, the tax relief would offset at least some of the benefit cut.
Eliminating taxes on tips and overtime The former president has also promised to jettison federal taxes on tips and overtime pay. While he has not provided details on either proposal, he indicated that he would eliminate both income and payroll taxes on tips. (Harris has also vowed to get rid of federal income taxes on tips, but she would continue levying payroll taxes, which support Social Security and Medicare.)
Trump’s move would cut about $900 billion in revenue to Social Security, the committee found.
However, many tipped workers would not benefit from eliminating federal income taxes on tips since they are disproportionately young, unmarried and lower income, and therefore don’t earn enough to pay income tax, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University. Less than 3% of all families would receive a tax cut. The average break would be about $1,700, but for those at the bottom quintile of the income ladder, it would only be $200, on average.
If Trump also eliminates payroll taxes, then virtually all tipped workers would get a tax break, totaling an average of more than $2,100, the Tax Policy Center found. However, these workers would then get smaller Social Security payments after they retire since benefits are tied to earnings reported to the program.
Likewise, workers could receive less from Social Security in retirement if they don’t owe payroll taxes on their overtime compensation. About 12% of hourly workers and 5% of salaried workers worked overtime, according to the Budget Lab at Yale.
The committee also looked at Trump’s tariffs and immigration measures, which it estimated would cut revenue to Social Security by $400 billion over a decade. The former president’s vow to hike tariffs could lead to higher inflation, which would prompt a larger annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security. And clamping down on unauthorized immigration and increasing border security could reduce the number of undocumented immigrants paying into the Social Security system.
Trump’s proposals are in keeping with his “overall recklessness with Social Security,” Max Richtman, CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said in a statement.
“Once again, Trump postures as a friend of the working class, then puts forward plans that endanger the benefits working people have earned — and depend on in retirement,” he said. “It is irresponsible for a presidential candidate to advocate plans that would hasten the insolvency of the Social Security trust fund, triggering an even larger automatic benefit cut if that happens.”
I call BS. Trump was talking about something that knocks the virus out in about a minute. Inthe same press conferance, it was clearly stated that bleach takes FIVE MINUTES. Read the transcript.
That is not what happened. You've been duped again by something that was edited. When she told them they must be at the wrong rally they were yelling "Lie, lie, lie!"
You were once again sucked into some alt right wing Twitter BS. But I'm not surprised by that.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I call BS. Trump was talking about something that knocks the virus out in about a minute. Inthe same press conferance, it was clearly stated that bleach takes FIVE MINUTES. Read the transcript.
Speaking of BS, you are full of it. You have your head so far up his butt, he's filling you up with it and then you're spewing it all over these threads.
Who cares how long it takes. He suggested looking into injecting bleach and sunlight. He was riffing during a press conference on something he doesn't know anything about and sounded dumb. In the grand scheme of things, just sounding dumb during a press conference doesn't set him apart from his competition (or most politicians for that matter), but ignoring common sense and the larger narrative and trying to rewrite what happened will rub a lot of people the wrong way.
You think you're so clever picking apart individual statements trying to adjust meaning and context, but really you just look bad.
Regarding Jan6... yes, he sent that tweet to "remain peaceful". The problem is by 2:30 the Capitol had already been breached, the Senate was being evacuated, the VP had come within 40' of the mob chanting that they wanted to hang him. He didn't tell them to go home, didn't send in additional support. He also tweeted criticism of Mike Pence. He didn't actually DO anything to help the situation.
Same thing regarding the Charlotsville thing. You should probably read past the headline of the snopes article you posted. It was a protest planned by and attended by white nationalists. Trying to sterilize the statement looks particularly bad because the way it was taken fits more closely into his larger body of work ("stand back and stand by").
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Trump did not speak to Pence during the riot, even after learning that the Secret Service had ushered him to a secure location under the Capitol plaza. Their last call came at 11:20 that morning, when Trump urged Pence to refuse to count Biden’s electors and Pence subsequently declined.
Trump publicly expressed outrage at Pence during the riot via a 2:24 p.m. tweet.
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,” he said, igniting a fresh wave of anger among the crowd that had breached the Capitol.
Trump’s tweet arrived 10 minutes after rioters had first broken into the Capitol through a Senate-wing window, and it was posted four minutes before Pence arrived at the secure Capitol location where he holed up with his security team for hours.
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That's pretty damning.
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
I make myself feel better thinking that maybe somebody reads his own BS being thrown back into his face and realizes that, regardless of how bad Kamala and Democrats may be, voting for someone that has so consistently shown to be on the wrong side of truth and at odds with many of the basic tenets of our democracy is the wrong move.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
That is not what happened. You've been duped again by something that was edited. When she told them they must be at the wrong rally they were yelling "Lie, lie, lie!"
You were once again sucked into some alt right wing Twitter BS. But I'm not surprised by that.
you are the one turning a blind eye. She's cooked.
Here’s another lie by Kamala it’s more recent. She said Trump threatened to use the military against his opponents. I checked it and googled it and scopes brought up the fact that he was asked the question about outside agitators, and he said outside agitators aren’t the biggest problem, there’s inside agitators that are far worse. He said that the National Guard or the military could take care of it.
Now the question that I have is this. The question that was asked immediately before this quote was about outside agitators on ELECTION DAY. My question is how does Trump use the military or the National Guard on ELECTION DAY when he’s not President. It is clear that regardless of the final outcome of the election, Trump will not be president on election day. It would be up to Joe Biden to call the National Guard. 😀
Also, I’d like to ask this question. Can anyone provide a quote with link to documentation and context where Trump said that he personally (first person) would use the military against opponents? It must be Trump speaking about something he would do in the first person and it must employ the word opponents, not agitators. If the word opponent is in the context or in the direct quote either way, I’ll accept it But it must be Trump saying specifically that HE (first person subject) will use the military against opponents.
So I’m looking forward to someone’s response. Please provide full quote.
You won’t answer because you can’t answer. Kamala’s lies are as easy to knock down as a deck of cards. And impossible to defend. See post above, for example. 😀
Kamala Harris Mocks Audience Members for Proclaiming 'Jesus Is Lord,' Says 'You're at the Wrong Rally
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"Some shouted in response Harris' Thursday rally abortion comments, "Jesus is Lord!" This prompted Harris to say, "Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street."
Democrats fear race may be slipping away from Harris
There is growing fear in Democratic circles that the presidential race could be slipping further away from Vice President Harris.
To be sure, Democrats still think Harris can defeat former President Trump. The margins are so close in the seven battleground states likely to decide the contest, a shift toward either candidate or a mistake in the polling could be decisive.
At the same time, Democrats are privately expressing worry that battleground polling appears to be moving in Trump’s direction over the last two weeks.
Cracks in the “blue wall” of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are starting to show, with Senate incumbents in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin now in toss-up races, according to the Cook Political Report.
The three northern states generally move in the same direction in the presidential race, but Harris has been losing ground to Trump in polls, particularly in Wisconsin. In Michigan, doubts among Arab American voters are worrying Democrats.
None of this is making Democrats feel better about an Election Day that is now less than two weeks away.
“Everyone keeps saying, ‘It’s close.’ Yes, it’s close, but are things trending our way? No. And no one wants to openly admit that,” one Democratic strategist said. “Could we still win? Maybe. Should anyone be even slightly optimistic right now? No.”
Another strategist was even more dour when asked about the current state of play: “If this is a vibe election, the current vibes ain’t great.”
Harris could have another path to victory that would involve winning Pennsylvania, losing another blue wall state but winning North Carolina and Nevada. But neither of those states are firmly in her camp, nor are two other swing states, Arizona and Georgia.
Jon Ralston, a veteran political journalist in Nevada, also reported a rare statewide lead among Republicans who have voted early in the state.
“It’s too soon to call it a trend, but this was a huge day for Republicans in Nevada,” Ralston wrote in his popular blog at The Nevada Independent. He later noted that overnight, Democrats had cut into the Republican advantage, but the GOP maintained a 2 percentage point lead as of Tuesday.
Democratic strategist Jim Manley, who served as a senior aide to then-Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) during his tenure as Senate majority leader, acknowledged that the rash of news was discouraging. But he said he still feels optimistic about Harris’s chances.
“It’s pretty damn frustrating for it to be so close given how extreme and unhinged Trump’s rhetoric has become in the last couple of weeks,” Manley said.
“I just hope and trust they’ve got a plan,” he said of the Harris campaign.
Other Democrats interviewed by The Hill on Tuesday also voiced some optimism. Some pointed to Harris’s robust schedule in the closing days of the campaign, when she is expected to spend the bulk of her time in the battleground states.
While Trump trolled Harris for being out of the public eye for much of Tuesday — the vice president was conducting two interviews — she will travel to Houston on Friday to appear before a large crowd to speak about abortion rights.
Traveling to Texas, which is not a swing state, has raised some eyebrows.
But campaign aides say the moment will be a powerful one as she begins her closing campaign argument by appearing alongside women who have been impacted by the state’s strict abortion laws. It’s a moment they believe will play across the country and generate attention.
“She needs these big moments,” one consultant close to the campaign said. “Polls show that abortion is one of those issues that will continue to drive women in both parties to the polls.”
Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director until early last year, commended his former boss for running “a spectacular campaign.” He said she had taken risks — including appearing in a Fox News interview last week — and effectively turned Republicans such as Cheney “into another running mate.”
Democratic strategist Brad Bannon said while the race is a dead heat, “Harris is more popular than Trump, which means her vote has more growth potential than he does.
“She is doing much more than Trump to reach out of her base,” Bannon said. “The best example is her round of stops with Cheney in swing suburbs that Nikki Haley won in Republican primaries.”
“The swing voters are more personality than issue-driven, and Trump’s persona is rapidly disintegrating.”
At the same time, Democratic strategist Joel Payne added that “both campaigns have hard things to do in the closing days.
“I’d prefer to have to do the hard things that Harris has to do instead of Trump,” Payne said. “But make no mistake: This is a turnout election, and her team is going to have to close strong with their get-out-the-vote operation to win this thing.”
A former aide in the Obama White House said the race could go either way, and no one should be surprised by either result.
“It feels like two things are true at the same time,” the aide explained. “It’s either … of course she was always a flawed candidate, nobody likes her, she’s tainted by Biden, and all of the macrofactors have slid away from Team Blue — it’s becoming a border, economy, foreign affairs election.”
“Or, of course — he was a terrible candidate, ran a horrible, crazy campaign, had no real ground game or fundraising and then acted like an insane person.”
“It’s sort of the opposite of 2016, which was, ‘How could this happen?’ This feels more like, ‘Of course this happened.’ … We just don’t know which yet.”
U.S. intel officials say Russia is behind attempts to smear Tim Walz Updated October 22, 20242:23 PM ET Shannon Bond
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images Russia was behind salacious false claims against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz that circulated widely on social media last week, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
This is what Russian propaganda looks like in 2024 "The intelligence community assesses that Russian influence actors created and amplified content alleging inappropriate activity committed by the Democratic vice presidential candidate during his earlier career," an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday.
"Vladimir Putin wants Donald Trump to win because he knows Trump will roll over and give him anything he wants. We condemn in the strongest terms any effort by foreign actors to interfere in U.S. elections," said Morgan Finkelstein, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign.
Last week, posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, accused Walz of wrongdoing when he was a high school teacher and football coach. That included a video purporting to show a former student making allegations against Walz, which was shared by an X account that has promoted the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. However, the Washington Post interviewed the actual former student, who is not the man in the video and who said the alleged incident never occurred.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Ukrainian officials at the Department of Justice in 2022 in Washington, D.C. Untangling Disinformation U.S. accuses Russia of sophisticated influence campaigns against U.S. voters Other posts making unverified accusations against Walz were also quickly debunked by users on X and fact checkers, who noted that screenshots of what was supposed to be an email from an alleged victim contained inconsistencies, including what appeared to be a cursor still visible in the text of one image.
The claims were boosted by pro-Trump accounts with large followings. They racked up millions of views on X and other platforms. The post by the QAnon account had more than 4.3 million views before it was deleted, according to Wired.
Military musicians perform in Moscow's Red Square on Sept. 1. Researchers at Microsoft say Russia is pivoting its online influence operations to focus on Vice President Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, in the final stretch of the election. Untangling Disinformation Microsoft says Russia’s election interference efforts have pivoted to Harris and Walz The intelligence official said the video showed "several indicators of manipulation" consistent with Russian influence operations.
"This video is consistent with the pattern of Russian influence actors seeking to undermine the Democratic presidential ticket by fabricating allegations against them," the official said. "One of their tactics they use is these staged direct-to-camera videos and trying to make them go viral."
This photo shows political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson on the left side of the photo while he speaks with Eric Trump, a son of former President Donald Trump, during the 2024 Republican National Convention. Johnson is wearing a black T-shirt and is holding a microphone. Eric Trump, standing on the right side of the photo, is also holding a microphone and is wearing a white shirt and gray suit jacket. Untangling Disinformation How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos That includes a video from earlier this year that intelligence officials say Russia staged in which a woman claimed to be the victim of a hit-and-run accident by Vice President Kamala Harris in 2011. The false claim was spread via a website claiming to be a local San Francisco TV station. There is no evidence any such incident occurred, and the purported TV station does not exist.
Researchers say such tactics are hallmarks of a Russian propaganda operation dubbed "Storm-1516", uncovered by Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub last fall, that manufactures purported whistleblower videos and other faked evidence and then tries to make them go viral, according to NBC News.
Other Russian influence operations have created websites spoofing real U.S. news outlets to share fake articles generated by artificial intelligence. In September, the justice department indicted two employees of Russian state broadcaster RT in a scheme to funnel nearly $10 million to right-wing American influencers who posted videos opposing aid to Ukraine, praising Trump, and denigrating Democrats. The influencers have said they did not know the company paying them was linked to Russia.
A file photo from June 8, 2018 shows a control room at RT's Moscow studios. The state media organization has been accused by the Justice Department of covertly paying pro-Trump influencers in the U.S. Untangling Disinformation Why Russia's broadcaster RT turned to covertly funding American pro-Trump influencers At Tuesday's briefing, intelligence officials said efforts by geopolitical adversaries to divide Americans will "intensify" in the lead up to Election Day and continue after polls close.
"Foreign actors, particularly Russia, Iran, and China, remain intent on fanning divisive narratives to divide Americans and undermine Americans' confidence in the U.S. democratic system. These activities are consistent with what these actors perceive to be in their interests, even as their tactics continue to evolve," the ODNI official said.
The U.S. says Russia would like to see former President Trump win the election, while Iran favors Harris. China does not have a preference in the presidential contest but is trying to sway downballot races, officials have said.
U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans Intelligence officials say foreign adversaries are better prepared to exploit the potential uncertainty of the post-election period this year, thanks to what they learned from the 2020 cycle and a better understanding of what happens after polls close.
A woman walks in front of the Kremlin on September 23, 2024. U.S. intelligence officials say Russia has embraced artificial intelligence tools to try to sway American voters ahead of the November election. Untangling Disinformation U.S. officials say Russia is embracing AI for its election influence efforts Both Russia and Iran are "probably willing to at least consider" inciting violence, including by stoking threats towards election workers and amplifying protests, officials said.
Predominately blue illustration in a cartoon style. Shows a man standing at the foot of a large smart phone, with news windows floating above the phone screen. Untangling Disinformation How to avoid sharing election misinformation Russia in particular is expected to boost anything that questions the integrity of the election, no matter who wins, "because Russia believes election controversies distract and weaken the United States," the intelligence official said.
But if Harris wins, the official said, Russia is expected to become even more aggressive.
Damn, that was a pathetic attempt to turn the dem ‘weird’ attack around. Almost feel embarrassed for you… almost. Watch a Trump speech for the definition of weirdness. Trump is weird-incarnate. A true weirdo. And the MAGA ticket is a truly weird ticket. American’s supporting a guy that hates America and wants to end our constitution because he wants to be hateful to immigrants and others he feels are subhuman, never thought I’d see the day.
If you look at actual early voting in a couple of those states-in Pennsylvania, Dems are outpacing republicans by a 62-29 percent margin and have a 360k vote firewall not counting independents and that lead is growing pretty much every day.
Georgia should pass 2 million early votes tomorrow. Women voters are outpacing men by 11% and 15.7% of Georgia votes so far did not vote in 2020. Most of those are in the 18-29 age group
Feeling this and remember the lead up to J6. If it’s close, GOPers will commit violence if Trump not declared winner by the dsy sfter the election… smh, wake up America.
This is the same rhetoric that was going on all over right-wing social media in the days before J6. I posted about it then and was mocked until I wasn’t. Well, mock me again, because I think Trump or Trumpian surrogates will call for the violence as soon as he starts to realize he’s lost. I don’t think it will be an outright call for civil war, but more of a Oh, we know he won and y’all are trying to steal it again… yada yada horse crap in a we don’t want to but we have to way. Trump will not go away quietly, while the largest swath of America wants completely rid of him and his petty antics. I think Trump will try to create drama on a level never before seen… but I also feel only a few zealots will answer his call.
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